Improved rah,way-rail splice



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JASPER SNELL AND JOHN M. oRosLAND, or PoTTsvI'LLE,PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 96,628, dated November 9, 1869.

IMPCVED RAILWAY-RAIL SPLICE.

Thewohedule referred to ln these Letters Patent and making part of the name.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that we, JASPER SNELL and J ons M. G ROSLAND. citizens of the United States, land residents or. tne borough ofPottsville,in the county of Schuylkill, and State of.Pennsylvania,` have jointly invented and perfected a new andimproved Railway-Rail Clutch and' mode of preventing the inequalities and uneven surface' at the joints or junction 'of the rails upon railway-tracks, thereby, in eifect, forming a continuous rail, by clutching the ends, joints, or junction of the rails, and dispensing generally with the cumbrous cast-iron chairs now in use; and in' addition thereto, the same may be applied to defects, breaks, or fractures ofu'ails upon 'such roadways, by the use of a screw-punch, without.

side angles at both edges, of the width of the base of `the rail, .to which it is applied, to be placed under the point of junction of the rails, and between thc crosslties; second, a pair ofv side plates, B B, having a return-ange,.tl1at clutches the angles of the bottom plate, and being bolted through the rail in the usual manner of what are termed fish-plates, compresses the ends of the rails downward on the bottom plate, while the latter holdsl them upward in equal force; and the-combination thus formed, is intended to restore 'the full strength ofl a sound rail to the point of severance. Y

Thelength and strength of the clutch, and the number of bolts, two or four, may be left to the judgment of the parties using it. l

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is

The railway-rail clutch or splice, formed by the an. gular channel-bar plate A and the side plates B B, constructed and applied as set forth;

JASPER SNELL. JOHN M. OROSLAND.

Witnesses:

MORGAN Renn, GEORGE BRIGHT. 

